The best VODrips capture the unspoken pact: the player has no audience except their future self and the occasional lost soul scrolling through archive footage. They talk to Ellie when they think no one is listening. They mutter "oh no" under their breath at the university dormitory. They reload an earlier save not because they died, but because they accidentally let a Firefly live and it felt wrong . Because in the apocalypse, there are no retakes
